POPULATION: 158,147

INCORPORATION DATE: 1893

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS:

• District 1 – Jordan Wamhoff
• District 2 – David Rogers
• District 3 – Robert Poythress
• District 4 – Leticia Gonzalez
• District 5 – Robert Macaulay

FORM OF GOVERNMENT: General Law

MADERA. County seat, Madera. Created March 11, 1893, from a portion of Fresno County lying north of the San Joaquin River. Madera in Spanish signified “timber.” The county derived its name from the town of Madera, named when the California Lumber Company built a flume to carry lumber to the railroad there in 1876.